Children and Pictures: Drawing and Understanding

In Children and Pictures, Richard P. Jolley critiques both
the historical and contemporary studies conducted in the field of
children’s making and understanding of pictures.

Some highlights of Children and Pictures are:

What develops, and why, in children’s representational
and expressive drawing, both in typical, atypical, and
cross-cultural populations.

The developing relationship between production and
comprehension of pictures.

Children’s understanding of pictures as symbolic
representations.

Practical and applied uses of drawings, particularly in
clinical and legal settings.

Diverse educational practices of teaching drawing across the
world.

Presenting up-to-date research and pointing towards future
topics of study, Children and Pictures brings the study of
children’s drawings into mainstream child development
studies. This is an edifying resource for students, researchers,
practitioners, parents, artists, and educators in the field.

Richard P. Jolley is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology department at Staffordshire University, UK. In the 13 years since completing his PhD in children's making and understanding of expressive pictures he has broadened his research interests in the topic of "children and pictures," taking a variety of perspectives including developmental, cognitive, clinical, educational, aesthetic, and cross-cultural.

"Children's drawing is a fascinating topic with a wide-ranging
appeal, and this well-written and well-informed book will be
very useful to students and researchers of child development and
art education, as well as being accessible to the general
reader. In ten clearly laid out chapters Richard Jolley gives
an up-to-date overview of some of the debates in the field, an
overview amply supported by research findings. In a further
and final chapter he suggests “future directions”
which, I'm sure, will provide food for thought for many of the
up-and-coming generation of researchers."
–Dr Maureen Cox, Emeritus Reader, Department of
Psychology, University of York

"A long time in the making, this book was well worth waiting
for. It is unusual in the range of topics it covers and the
importance it accords to the field. It can serve both as an
introduction for new readers and as a resource for established
researchers, which is extraordinarily hard to bring off. This
is because the author is clearly conducting a dialogue with the
reader throughout, in a gracefully styled stream of writing."
–Norman Freeman, Emeritus Professor and Senior
Research Fellow, Cognitive Development, University of Bristol

"Psychologist Richard Jolley takes the reader on a fascinating
journey, using children’s drawings and their understanding of
pictures as a way to understand children’s minds. This book
will enlighten researchers, clinicians, educators, and parents
– anyone who wants to understand why children draw in the
sometimes odd, almost always charming, way that they do."
–Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology, Boston
College, and Senior Research Associate, Project Zero, Harvard
University

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